The soul has an interpreter – often an unconscious
but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye.
– Charlotte Bronte
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
– Lord Alfred Tennyson
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye,
one seeing, one knowing, one love.
– Meister Eckhart, 1259 – 1327
These eyes tell the stories of
children around the world.
They speak of war, deprivation, and loss.
From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.
– William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost
There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
– G. K. Chesterton
When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.
– Sholom Aleichem
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-Henri Bergson
The eyes are the most powerful social signalers that we have and hence are sometimes called the windows of the soul.
– Glen Wilson
Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
– Heraclitus of Ephesus, 535 – c. 475 BCE
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
– Henry David Thoreau
Eyes have their own universal language, and
no interpreter is needed.
The countenance is the portrait of the soul,
and the eyes mark its intentions.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 – 43 BCE
The face is the mirror of the mind,
and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
– St. Jerome
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